基于全局与局部感知特征的三维彩色点云质量评价

作为物理对象在三维空间的有效表示方法,三维彩色点云可以提供丰富的沉浸式视觉体验,但在其获取、处理、编码传输等各环节会引入失真,从而导致其视觉质量下降.因此,如何监测彩色点云的视觉质量是一个亟待解决的重要问题.本文将三维彩色点云投影到二维平面,提出了一种基于全局与局部感知特征的彩色点云视觉质量评价方法.首先,将三维彩色点云转化为彩色纹理投影图与几何投影图.然后,根据三维彩色点云的纹理与几何失真在其投影图中的不同表象,分别描述并提取其失真特征;其中,在彩色纹理投影图中提取全局颜色与局部纹理特征,在几何投影图中提取全局与局部几何特征.最后,将所有全局和局部感知特征构成最终的特征向量预测彩色点云的视觉质量.在两个主观评价数据库(SJTU-PCQA、CPCD2.0)进行测试的实验结果表明,所提出方法在性能上优于13个现有代表性视觉质量评价方法,与主观感知质量有更好的一致性.     

采用SJND模型的动态点云感知编码方法

动态点云能有效描述自然场景与3D对象,提供沉浸式视觉体验;但其数据量庞大。需对其进行有效压缩。提出了采用显著性引导的恰可察觉失真(Saliency-guided Just Noticeable Distortion, SJND)模型的动态点云感知编码方法。针对纹理图感知冗余,构建了基于离散余弦变换域的SJND模型,应用于纹理图编码过程中的DCT系数抑制;考虑到相同失真等级下显著区域的几何失真更易被察觉,提出使用投影显著图将几何图进行分层;最后,为不同层级的编码树单元进行自适应量化参数选择和编码。与V-PCC标准方法相比,在保证动态点云视觉质量的前提下,所提出方法提升了动态点云的编码效率。     

基于多特征组合的彩色遥感图像分类研究

为了解决利用单一特征对彩色遥感图像进行分类效果不理想、普适性不强等问题,提出了一种基于颜色和纹理特征组合的支持向量机彩色遥感图像分类方法。该方法尝试将彩色遥感图像的颜色信息和纹理信息相结合作为支持向量机算法分类的特征向量,据此对遥感影像进行分类,并进行了实验验证。结果表明,颜色和纹理特征组合的支持向量机分类方法能够取得较高的分类精度,其分类效果优于传统的单一颜色或纹理特征分类,是一种有效的彩色遥感图像分类方法。     

基于语义信息补偿全局特征的物体点云分类分割

3D点云数据处理在物体分割、医学图像分割和虚拟现实等领域起到了重要作用。然而现有3D点云学习网络全局特征提取范围小,难以描述局部高级语义信息,进而导致点云特征表述不完整。针对这些问题,提出一种基于语义信息补偿全局特征的物体点云分类分割网络。首先,将输入的点云数据对齐到规范空间,进行数据的输入转换预处理。然后,利用扩张边缘卷积模块提取转换后数据的每一层特征,并叠加生成全局特征。而在局部特征提取时,利用提取到的低级语义信息来描述高级语义信息和有效几何特征,用于补偿全局特征中遗漏的点云特征。最后,融合全局特征和局部高级语义信息得到点云的整体特征。实验结果表明,文中方法在分类和分割性能上优于目前经典和新颖的算法。     

基于三维特征和结构相似度的图像质量评价方法

分析了人眼视觉特性、双眼视差异信息等三维特征,将立体视觉与图像的结构相似度(SSIM)相结合,提出了一种新的立体图像质量评价方法。该方法考虑了立体图像的亮度、纹理细节和空间位置等因素对人感知立体效果的影响,利用加权平均结构相似性(WMSS)联合统计学方法得到评价初值,用包含三维景物深度信息的双眼视差信息进行修正,作为立体图像质量的评价结果。实验表明,该方法符合人眼视觉特性,与主观评价(MOS)的一致性较好。     

基于码流的G-PCC压缩点云无参考感知质量评估

为了实现对采用G-PCC编码的点云质量的实时监控,提出一种基于码流的无参考点云感知质量评估模型。首先根据主观实验的结果分析确定几何无损时点云的感知质量与纹理量化参数之间的关系,然后使用纹理量化参数和纹理比特率来预测纹理复杂度,结合空域掩盖效应建立几何无损时的点云质量评估模型。然后研究位置量化尺度对点云下采样质量的影响,发现纹理量化参数与位置量化尺度对点云质量的影响相互独立,并最终得到完整的点云质量评估模型。对该模型在WPC4点云数据库中进行测试,其SRCC为0.9447,PLCC为0.9465,RMSE为6.8252,表明该模型有良好的性能,与现有性能最好的GraphSIM客观指标相比,该模型指标的PLCC和SRCC分布分别提高了0.0223和0.0238,RMSE降低了1.1898。      

基于SIFT特征的多视点云数据配准和拼接算法

针对无特征标志点的大场景多视点云数据,提出了一种新的基于SIFT特征的配准和拼接算法。算法提出了有效纹理图像的概念,并对有效纹理图像进行SIFT特征提取和匹配;然后将提取的SIFT特征点和匹配关系反射到三维点云数据,获取多视点云数据的特征点和匹配关系,完成多视点云数据的拼接。算法在有效纹理图像中提取和匹配特征点,排除了点云数据中孔洞和无效数据的干扰,并且算法只利用较高鲁棒性的特征点对进行拼接,计算简单,匹配精度和效率都得到提高。对室内和室外两个大场景的2个视点数据进行实验,实验结果证明拼接速度和精度都有较大的提高。     

基于图像分割的深度视频校正算法

在基于深度图的虚拟视点绘制过程中,由于通过深 度估计软件获取的深度视频存在大量的失真,从而导致绘制的虚拟视点中存在纹理失真和缺 失现象。本文围绕深度视频失真类型,提出一种基于分割的深度 视频校正算法。利用彩色深度一致性信息分区域校正深度失真,以解决由于深度块失真造成 的虚拟视点纹理 缺失问题。首先,提取彩色视频运动和边缘区域,得到彩色视频边缘和运动区域掩模图;其 次,在边缘和运 动信息的辅助下,对彩色图像进行Mean Shift聚类,并将不同类别区域赋以不同的标签;最 后,分别统计不 同类别连通区域对应的深度直方图,利用其峰值校正深度视频中深度彩色非一致区域。实验 结果表明,本文提 出的基于分割块的深度视频校正算法优于部分基于像素的滤波算法,可以有效地校正深度视 频块失真,解决 虚拟视点边缘失真和纹理缺失问题,同时虚拟视点质量平均提高了0.20dB。     

基于几何和纹理特征的表情层级分类方法

针对表情识别,为提取对个体差异鲁棒性更强的特征,并有效利用特征自身分布特性,本文提出基于几何和纹理特征的表情层级分类方法.首先,构建基于中性脸相似度的几何特征提取方法,自动匹配样本相似中性脸,提取特征点比例系数几何特征;然后,利用充分矢量三角形提取纹理特征;最后,给出表情层级分类框架,在三个层级下分别利用提取特征判定表情类别.所提方法在JAFFE库和CK库上的实验结果表明,本文方法取得了比基于一般几何和纹理特征的识别方法更好的效果,证明了本文方法的有效性.     

一种基于最小可察觉失真的立体图像质量客观评价方法

立体图像质量是评价立体视频系统性能的有效途径,而如何利用人类视觉特性对立体图像质量进行有效的评价是目前的研究难点。本文通过分析最小可察觉失真(JND,just noticeable distortion)视觉感知模型,并结合反映图像结构信息的奇异值矢量,提出了一种基于JND的立体图像质量客观评价方法。评价方法由图像质量评价和深度感知评价两部分组成,首先提取反映图像质量和深度感知的特征信息作为立体图像特征信息,然后根据立体图像的不同失真类型情况对其特征进行融合,通过支持向量回归(SVR,support vector Regression)预测得出立体图像质量的客观评价值。实验结果表明,采用本文提出的客观评价方法对立体数据测试库进行评价,在不同失真类型或混合失真评价结果中,Pearson线性相关系数(CC)值均在0.94以上,Spearman等级相关系数(SROCC)值均在0.92以上,符合人眼视觉特性,能够很好地预测人眼对立体图像的主观感知。     

Multi-layer and Multi-scale feature aggregation for DIBR-Synthesized image quality assessment

Depth-Image-Based Rendering (DIBR) is one of the main fundamental techniques for generating new viewpoints in 3D video applications such as multi-viewpoint video (MVV), free viewpoint video (FVV) and virtual reality (VR). Due to the imperfections of color images, depth maps or texture restoration techniques, several types of distortions occur in synthesized views. However, most of related works evaluated the quality of DIBR-synthesized views by only detecting a specific type of distortion, such as stretching, black holes, blurring, etc., which were unable to accurately evaluate the quality of DIBR-synthesized views. In this paper, a new no-reference image quality assessment method is proposed to evaluate the quality of DIBR-synthesized images by combining multi-layer and multi-scale features of images. To be specific, the distortions introduced by different stages of virtual viewpoint synthesis are first analyzed, and then multi-layer and multi-scale features are extracted to estimate the degree of texture and structure distortions. As a result, individual quality scores associated with two types of distortions (e.g., structural distortion and texture distortion) are aggregated to an overall image quality. Experimental results on two publicly available DIBR datasets show that the method has better performance than the state-of-the-art models.Index Terms: image quality assessment, DIBR-synthesized image, distortion correction, BIQA.     

Color image detail enhancement based on quaternion guided filter

Color image enhancement is an active research field in image processing. Currently, many image enhancement methods are capable of enhancing the details of the color image. However, these methods only process the red, green and blue (RGB) color channels separately, which leads to color distortion easily. In order to overcome this problem, the paper presents an approach to integrate the quaternion theory into the traditional guided filter to obtain a quaternion guided filter (QGF). This method makes full use of the color information of an image to realize the holistic processing of RGB color channels. So as to preserve color information while enhancing details, this paper proposes a color image detail enhancement algorithm based on the QGF. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective in the applications of the color image detail enhancement, and enables image's edges to be more prominent and texture clearer while avoiding color distortion. Compared with the existing image enhancement methods, the proposed method achieves better enhancement performance in terms of the visual quality and the objective evaluating indicators.     

BGT: A blind image quality evaluator via gradient and texture statistical features

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to design a model that can accurately evaluate the quality of the distorted image without any information about its reference image. Previous studies have shown that gradients and textures of image is widely used in image quality evaluation tasks. However, few studies used the joint statistics of gradient and texture information to evaluate image quality. Considering the visual perception characteristics of the human visual system, we develop a novel general-purpose BIQA model via two sets of complementary perception features. Specifically, the joint statistical histograms of gradient and texture are extracted as the first set of features, and the second set of features is extracted using the local binary pattern (LBP) operator. After extracting two groups of complementary quality-aware features, the feature vectors are sent to the support vector regression machine to establish the nonlinear relationship between quality-aware features and quality scores. A large number of experiments on seven large benchmark databases show that the proposed BIQA model has higher accuracy, better generalization properties and lower computational complexity than the relevant state-of-the-art BIQA metrics.     

TGP-PCQA: Texture and geometry projection based quality assessment for colored point clouds

Colored point cloud (PC) will inevitably encounter distortion during its acquisition, processing, coding and transmission, which may affect the visual quality of the colored PC. Therefore, it is necessary to design an effective tool for colored PC quality assessment (PCQA). In this paper, considering the mapping relationship of perception between the colored PC and its corresponding projection images, we propose a novel PCQA method based on texture and geometry projection (denoted as TGP-PCQA). The main idea of the proposed TGP-PCQA method is to obtain texture and geometry projection maps from different perspectives for evaluating the colored PC. Specifically, 4D tensor decomposition is used to obtain the combination and difference information between the reference and distorted texture projection maps for mainly characterizing texture distortion of colored PC. Meanwhile, the edge features of the geometry projection map are calculated to measure the global or local geometry distortion. All of the extracted features are combined to predict an overall quality of colored PC. In addition, this paper establishes a multi-distorted colored PC database named CPCD2.0 with compression distortions and Gaussian noise, which orients to the influence of both geometry and texture components in distortion. Experimental results on two open subjective evaluation databases (IRPC and SJTU-PCQA) and the self-built CPCD2.0 database show that the proposed TGP-PCQA method outperforms the state-of-the-art PCQA methods. We are also providing the self-built CPCD2.0 database free of charge at https://github.com/cherry0415/CPCD2.0.     

基于特征融合的无参考屏幕图像质量评价

考虑到人类视觉系统对图像边缘和局部纹理信息较为敏感,本文提出一种基于特征融合的无参考屏幕图像质量评价方法。所提方法通过梯度方向直方图和局部二值模式分别提取屏幕图像的边缘和局部纹理信息,接着通过特征融合过程得到一个更加能够描述屏幕失真的融合特征,最后采用支持向量回归训练得到屏幕图像融合特征向量与主观质量分数的质量评价映射模型。实验结果显示,与现有的图像质量评价方法相比,本文所提算法能够更好地反映出人类视觉系统对屏幕图像的主观感知度。      

Objective quality assessment of synthesized images by local variation measurement

Due to the rapid development of free-viewpoint television (FVT), Depth-Image-Based Rendering (DIBR) technology has been widely used to synthesize images of virtual view-points. However, the types of distortions in the synthesized images are different from those of natural images, such as discontinuity, flickering, stretching, etc. To measure the distortion occurred in the synthesized images, we propose a full-reference (FR) quality assessment method by local variation measurement consisting of three-modules. Firstly, since the distortion in the synthesized image mainly occurs in the region with high-frequency structure information, the Neutrosophic domain is employed to evaluate the degradation of local image structure. Secondly, by considering that the texture of the synthesized image might be damaged due to the warping of 2D image or the loss of information in the occlusion region, we evaluate the visual quality of local texture by using the features obtained from frequency domain. Thirdly, to measure the stretching distortion which is unique in the synthesized image, the visual quality of extracted stretching area is measured by entropy. Finally, a pooling operation is used to combine the quality scores of the three modules to obtain the final predicted quality score. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is competitive with state-of-the-art FR and no-reference image quality assessment metrics.     

互补色小波域图像质量盲评价方法

图像色彩空间的RGB通道具有密切的关系,图像质量的改变会改变这样的关系.然而传统图像质量评价方法大多基于灰度图像统计特性,忽略了颜色通道间关系信息.为充分利用颜色信息,本文基于新近提出的互补色小波变换提出一种图像质量盲评价方法.文章建立了图像互补色域自然场景统计、多尺度和方向性能量分布等模型.分析表明：这些模型不仅涵盖了传统灰度方法所能描述的信息,而且还能借助于互补色来有效表示彩色图像各通道之间的信息联系,提供表征图像质量的一组高效特征.基于这些特征,我们提出的图像质量盲评价的方法能有效提取图像的失真统计特征,能给出与人眼主观评价图像质量结果保持高度一致、优于现有文献报道盲方法、且可与非盲（全参考）方法相比拟的评价结果.